Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 460 g
Reihe: ISSN
Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 460 g
Reihe: ISSN
ISBN: 978-3-11-153092-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Even though the literary trope of the flâneur has been proclaimed ‘dead’ on several occasions, it still proves particularly lively in contemporary Anglophone fiction. This study investigates how flânerie takes a belated ‘ethical turn’ in its more recent manifestations by negotiating models of ethical subjectivity. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s writings on the ‘aesthetics of existence’ as well as Judith Butler’s notion of precariousness as , it establishes a link between post-sovereign models of subject formation and a paradoxical constellation of flânerie, which surfaces most prominently in the work of Walter Benjamin. By means of detailed readings of Ian McEwan’s Siri Hustvedt’s , Teju Cole’s , Dionne Brand’s and Robin Robertson’s , this book traces how the ambivalence of flânerie and its textual representation produces ethical norms while at the same time propagating the value of difference by means of disrupting societal norms of sameness. thus shows that the flânerie text becomes a medium of ethical critique in post-postmodern times.
